Space

SpaceX Files Satellite Broadband Application

Elon Musk's SpaceX has applied to the FCC for a trial of two satellites that will beam down broadband to…

9 years ago

Jeff Bezos’ Space Company Completes Test Flight Of New Spacecraft

Amazon founder's Blue Origin space firm carries out maiden test flight of re-usable spacecraft in Texas

9 years ago

Fancy Making Contact With Little Green Men?

UK space organisations team up with Raspberry Pi offer kids the chance to send your computer code into space

9 years ago

In Pictures: Astronaut Launches HP’s Water-Cooled Apollo

Space legend Story Musgrave unveils HP's water-cooled Apollo 8000 supercomputer

10 years ago

Winklevoss Twins Use Bitcoin To Pay For Virgin Galactic Space Trip

The twins who claim to have invented Facebook praise the spirit of exploration, compare Richard Branson to Marco Polo

10 years ago

UAE Alleges US Backdoors Found In Its Spy Satellites

The United Arab Emirates has allegedly discovered two US-supplied 'security compromising components' in French-provided military satellites

10 years ago

NASA: In Space No One Can Afford To Fail

We can all learn from how NASA plans for failures, says Sean Michael Kerner

10 years ago

Stuxnet Infected Russian Nuclear Plant, International Space Station, Claims Kaspersky

According to the charismatic CEO, malware created to disrupt Iranian nuclear research has travelled to space

11 years ago

Met Office To Use MongoDB For Space Weather Forecasts

The open source NoSQL database will help predict solar flares

11 years ago

UK To Invest £200 Million In Space Technology

Reusable rocket engines and satellite tools could help the UK conquer the final frontier

11 years ago

PayPal To Take Its Payment Platform To Space

PayPal Galactic initiative will look at the challenges facing the electronic payment industry in Earth's orbit and beyond

11 years ago

Apple Plans Hiring Spree For Spaceship Campus

Apple has revealed plans to hire up to 7,400 new staff as it files documents for its new 'spaceship' campus

11 years ago

ISS Astronauts To Host A Google+ Hangout

Google’s social network commands a huge market share in space

11 years ago

IBM £26.6m Exascale Project To Power World’s Largest Radio Telescope

The Square Kilometre Array will process twice the amount of data generated on the Internet every day

12 years ago

Space App Developer Competition Launches

The ESNC calls out to entrepreneurs and developers to cash in on space-related ideas

12 years ago

Russia To Spike Plan To Recycle Satellite For Antarctic Broadband Access

The mis-aligned Russian Express AM4 satellite could provide fast access for Antarctic scientists if Polar Broadband can convince the Russians

12 years ago

Atlantis Lift Off Ends NASA Space Shuttle Programme

The Space Shuttle Atlantis has lifted off from Kennedy Space Centre for NASA's final Shuttle mission

13 years ago

NASA Takes First iPhone Into Orbit

The final shuttle mission will include an iPhone for use in experiments, as NASA shows the future of space exploration

13 years ago

UK Docks With US And Russia On Green Space Tech

The agreement will help projects including the analysis of climate change data from earth observation satellites

14 years ago

European Polar Ice Satellite Prepares For Launch

CryoSat-2 replaces the original CryoSat which crashed into the ocean it was meant to study

14 years ago

UK Uses Space Data To Combat Climate Change

As well as helping to meet green goals, the new space centre will generate UK jobs

14 years ago